What this is actually doing.
This creates or inspects a machine-readable value without sending you into a terminal, settings panel or full application.
Utilities & Security
Encode or decode this URL text.
Choose whether you are working with a query value or a whole URL, then copy the version the next system expects.
1 Choose action2 Paste URL/text3 Copy result
Use “query value” for text going after ?name=. Use “whole URL” when you need to preserve :, /, ? and &.
Result
What next?
Finish the next little job.
Useful to know
Four things worth knowing.
Where it stops.
It solves the named job, not every problem around it.
What to inspect.
Copy the result carefully and verify it before using it somewhere important.
Worth knowing.
Keep the original until the finished result has worked in the place you made it for.